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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alastair Gordon |
| ISBN: | 9780847831050 0847831051 |
| OCLC Number: | 166387917 |
| Notes: | "Crash pads, hippie communes, infinity machines, and other"--Cover. |
| Description: | 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm |
| Contents: | Part I. Soft landings : Enchanted loom -- Infinity machines -- Crash pads -- Soft city -- Part II. Outlaw nation : Unsettlers -- Magic circles -- Frontier mystics -- Epilogue : The fall of drop. |
| Responsibility: | Alastair Gordon. |
Abstract:
The utopian sixties inspired revolutionary and alternative ways to live, love, and entertain--and equally radical spaces to do it in. Stimulated by the psychedelic drug culture, rebel designers and architects distorted space to create womblike coves and isolation chambers, forging a spatial vocabulary that still reverberates today. At the same time, the tune-in-turn-on-drop-out message lured youths into far-flung communes, often under the roofs of brightly painted geodesic domes draped and tie-dyed fabric. Idealistic and anarchic enclaves with names like Drop City and Morning Star redefined the concept of community, inventing a wildly spontaneous way of building and dwelling.
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- Dwellings -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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- Communal living -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Nineteen sixties.
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